August 2009 Blog Posts (27)

A great reader has the ability to foresee the results of an event before it reaches its finale. He has the ability to bridge the gap between information and imagination to form creative thinking. It is this type of thinking that will give our students the chance to excel in the Information Age. Parley Pioneers Inc is non profit organization that is the host of The Vocabulary Game. This game has been working within our local schools since 2004. The game develops memorization skills, lateral… Continue

Today I got one of many chain emails I receive daily in my inbox. Sometimes these chain emails are funny, sometimes inspiring, sometimes they are hoax emails that you really can't believe some fell for (and didn't bother checking on a hoax web site like Snopes), sometimes they are political or conspiracy rants leaning so far to the right or left they are in danger of throwing the earth off it's…Continue

If, this fall, proponents of health-care reform conduct a postmortem on how President Obama's signature issue went down to defeat—I'm not saying it will, but stick with me here—they will not be far off if they trace it to this summer's "great…Continue

He talked, danced, ate, played, served and did business with kings, queens and potentates. His life story flows like the pages of history. He is Judge Robert Decatur, an amazing legend among men who helped to prove the value of all men at a time when Blacks were considered second-class citizens. He experienced the snub, humiliation and even the persecution for attempting to claim the rights and…Continue

2Plus7 is a great business opportunity that provides valuable benefits and cash in your pocket for you, your friends and family. Discounts on restaurants, pharmacy, electronics and much more! I am personally offering an incentive to you and your prospective business partners. Here’s the deal:

1. Personally sign in 2 people within 7 days of you coming on board and receive… Continue

Money and financial freedom have been and continue to be very hot topics for today’s families. Everywhere you look, magazine covers are screaming with stories about getting rich, building wealth, smart investing, saving yourself from the potential mortgage collapse, saving for retirement—on and on they go. We live in a world where the rich are getting richer and the middle class is slowly morphing into the “over-my-head-in-debt” class.

Last week I talked about the Selling Criteria or areas that can make your listing a lot more competitive, such as good financials, proper documentation (such as lease and franchise agreements), equipment lists and others. These are areas that brokers look into to determine how viable and competitive your listing is—the probability of success.
During my discussion last week, I purposely omitted two additional elements (c’mon, I don’t want to tell you all in one week!!): Price and Seller… Continue

More than ever before, the selling of your business has become extremely competitive. As a seller, in this market, you are competing with a greater volume of similar businesses for sale, buyers’ investment choices in this very tight and limited financing environment and, most importantly, the brokers’ time and involvement in your listing.

Here, I would like to focus on the latter—the brokers’ time and involvement in your listing. By the way, by “broker” I do not mean the person who… Continue

So you made the decision to buy a business. Now what?? Well, to begin with, I would recommend you get the services of a business broker to help you find the right business—it is FREE. Just like in the real estate market, brokers get paid a commission from the seller not the buyer AND, in most cases, the broker represents the transaction—where he is not an agent of either the seller or the buyer. Secondly, I would really give a lot of thought as to why I am buying a business. Do you need to or… Continue

Health care reform is now a private option: WHICH FOR-PROFIT INSURANCE COMPANY DO YOU WANT? You have to choose. And you have to pay. If you have a low income, under HR3200 government will subsidize the private insurance…Continue

In order for change and innovation to take place we need open dialog and open-minded people to take part in that dialog. Every day I'm getting 10-12 emails forwarded about Health Care reform... few of them further any kind of debate or offer ideas, most of them are simply negative attacks, full of distortions and lies.

A: If I join the CG Marketing Partners, "Grow the Green" program, ... how many people can I expect to be marketing to?

Q: The exact number will always vary, however the BASE will be the 15,000 who are part of the Connections Groups newsletter database. Then we add the contacts of the other marketing partners for that…Continue

"Book Trailers" are short videos used to promote books. With video being hotter then ever on the web, more and more authors are choosing to have a book trailer created to promote their works. A book trailer can range from a series of photos with graphics to an actual short video teaser to intrigue potential readers. Think "mini-movie." Once created, book trailers can appear on sites that promote authors as well as posted on numerous video sharing websites.

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